MONDAY, 6.00PM: GOLD shares dominated the day’s events on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday, climbing with unusual energy as the gold price continued to rise towards the $300 an ounce level. Merger speculation helped financials, while industrials followed hopes that the new Reserve Bank repo rate will start at 15%, down from the current […]
MONDAY 10:15AM OVERWHELMING support from the public and Bafana Bafana team members may force Jomo Sono and the South African Football Association to review their coaching deal. The South Africans, who returned home to a heroes’ welcome at the Johannesburg airport on Sunday, were all in favour of Sono staying on as coach. Bafana Bafana […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Crime is an easy target for foreign journalists, but some are finding new angles on South Africa writes Lynda Gledhill When CNN’s Mike Hanna reports that South Africa is on the brink of anarchy, millions around the world sit up and listen. Recently this global television news empire devoted half an hour to spiralling crime […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Robert Kirby: LOOSE CANNON No, I’m not trying to send her up when I offer the embattled Dr Nkosazana Zuma most sincere congratulations on her face-off with the tobacco industry. With uncanny vigilance, Zuma has seen the way things could go if tobacco barons aren’t beheaded more expeditiously. She’s clearly been watching how efficiently South […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Steve Morris Rugby In many ways, this Super 12 season marks the start of the examination of the relative strengths of New Zealand and South African rugby, a test that it has taken this country two full seasons in which we have not fully understood the questions being put to our players in the toughest […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Maria McCloy Advertising CD-ROM advertising and promoting products on the Internet are becoming increasingly popular, but certain brands and advertising companies are finding that one of the best ways to reach South Africans is to target them when they’re travelling to and from work. The commuter market numbers can’t be ignored. Ken Varejes of Johannesburg […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Stephen Bierley Tennis Korda the kick. Korda the cartwheel. Korda the Australian Open champion. There is no better story in any sport than when someone of obvious and undoubted talent finally achieves the major victory that his ability so richly deserves, particularly if it arrives as the minute hand on his career clock nudges towards […]
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/ 27 February 1998
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: AFTER performing comparatively dismally for some weeks, for once gold shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange outpaced the ever record-setting financials. The market was pushed by renewed confidence in Asia and a record-setting day on Wall Street, as well as confidence in an imminent local interest rate cut. The all gold index hurtled […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Madeleine Roux Moveable feast Cabbage! That vegetable of fear and loathing, forced-fed to reluctant children and mulish husbands. But a cabbage is sweet. A fresh leaf, crunched raw, has a zingy taste that floods the mouth with an astringent feel and sugary finish – just like good wine. But no wine leaves you with that […]
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/ 27 February 1998
Janet Smith If you’re thinking of sharing your copies of Seymore Butts Meets the Pleasure Girls and Sluts and Angels in Budapest with your coterie of fellow porn-lovers, think twice. The South African Police Services (SAPS) in Port Elizabeth – which had obviously had enough of pornography being peddled with scant regard for the law […]